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'PATENTED JAN. 19. 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented January 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM s. HORLACHER, or INDIANAPOLIS, INDIA-NA.

.KNOTTING-TOOL.

'srEcIFIoATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,033, dated January 19, 1904., A li atio fil d February 26, 1903. Serial N0.'145,209. (No model.)

To trill whom it may Be it known that I, ADAM S. HoRLAcH'ER, a

f citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Knotting-Tools, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in knotting or yarn-tying tools, and is particularly adapted to knotting the fringe on rugs or covers and such like, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out inthe The objectof this invention is to provide a hand knotting-tool by means of which the yarns applied to the ends of rugs to form fringe may be artistically knotted to not only perman'ently secure said yarnsto the rug, but also to produce a fringe that will be neat and artistic in appearance as well as. durable. I

' attain these objects by means of the device illustrated in the accompanyingfdrawings, in which similar. numeralsof reference designate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view of'the knotting-tool, showing the first operation or the manner of looping the yarn round the arms of said knotting-tool. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the second operation or the manner of engag-,

ing the end to be knotted. Fig. 3 is a similar .view showing said end engaged by'said tool and in position to be drawn through the loop first formed to complete the knot. Fig. 4 is a" broken detail View of the arm having the plane or face against'which the hooked or bent end of the opposing arm contacts or binds, and Fig. 5 is a View of the spring-hinge portion of the knotting-tool and looking in the direction, of the arrow a. (See Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4.) U

I first obtain a wire of suitable diameter, strength, elasticity, andlength and bend,wind, or coil the same intermediate its ends to form a spring coil or hinge 1, having the arms 2 and 3 extending therefrom. The opposing open portions of the arms 2 and 3 are curved bent in the reverse directionto from the ap proximately parallel opposing closing arms 4.

and 5 The arm 4 is provided with a bend or hook 6, the end of which contacts with the flat or flattened binding-face 7. of the arm 5 a to form a closed loop or engaging end. A single bend may be substituted for the double whereby the end'flat 7 will be held in contact with or bind on the end of'the bend 6 to form a closed loop or hook. The knotting-tool is applied to the material to be knotted in such a manner (see Fig. 1) that the arms 4 and 5 will be surrounded by the yarn to form a loop 8, having the crossed ends 9 and 10-, the end 9 being next to and in contactiwith the knotting-arms 4 and 5, and the end ,10 is therefore I underneath the end 9." I next press the arms.

2 and 3 to open or spread apart, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the knotting-arms 4 and 5 and engage the lower end 10 of the yarn by the bend or hook 6, then permit .the said arms 4 and 5 to close to retain said end 10 in the closed loop portion of said knottingtool. The end 10 is now-drawn throu'ghthe loop 8, as shown in Fig. 3, to form the desired knot.

In practice this device is particularly used 1n connection w1th the process of formlng artistic and ornamental fringe'work on the ends of rugs, table and other furniture covers, which fringe is generally composed of yarns or threads extending from the ends of saidrugs r or covers, and all said extending threads are divided into series of four or more yarns, according as a thinneror thicker string is required, which are interwoven or knotted to form a fringe of some desired pattern. or design, which operation is rapidly performed by the use of the above-described tool, and by its use the labor of knotting or working said fringe is materially reduced. from that required to perform the operation by the fingers.

, Having thus fullydescribed this my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and de-. sire to cover by Letters Patent of the-United States therefor, is' f 1. A knotting-tool comprising two springconnected arms formed of a single piece of 'mediate the spring-connected metal, one of which arms is provided with an end hook or bend and the other plane arm adapted to bind on the end of said hook or bond.

2. A knotting-tool comprising two springconnected arms formed of a single piece of metal bent at its center portion to cross interends' of said arms and the free ends thereof, and one of which arms is provided'with an end hook or bend and the other plane arm adapted to bind on the end of said hook or bond.

3. Aknotting-tool comprising a single wire bent intermediate its ends to form a springcoil and two PIOJGCtll'lg ends, said ends extending from said coil and bent to cross to 7 form two closing arms. one of which is provided with an end hook or bend and the other nesses.

I ADAM S. HORLACHER. \Vitnesses:

THOMPSON R. BELL, WM. 0. Morten. 

